To wonder what we do now that will be frowned upon in 30-40 years time

[Lunar27]

This video is a prime example of how attitudes change. It seems we go just go from stupid to stupid all the time.

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Another example is passive smoking. Obviously stupid and horrible to think we just smoked freely inside, thinking it was fine to breathe in smoke.

Fossil fueled cars will likely be the next as will idling cars outside of schools but I wonder what else we'll be scratching our heads over in future.

In other words return to the original purpose of the NHS, if you don't like your nose, sticky-out ears then either learn to love them or start saving, the rest of the country doesn't want to support your fantasies.

I admire the optimism of a lot of you wrt sexism and violence against women. I wish I agreed. I'm also starting to wonder if appreciation of other nations' cuisine might be considered cultural appropriation in the future.

Some of these responses are like when you watch an old sci-fi film that had people in The Future (1999) wearing silver jumpsuits and surviving on nutrition pills whilst driving flying cars

I had been thinking the same. When I was young we had a weird and wonderful view of what the future would be like - and it turned out to be nothing like it. As a pp said, this is mostly a wish list for posters, much of it is unlikely to happen. It's inconceivable that things mankind has been doing for centuries are going to disappear in 30 - 40 years time, or be frowned upon any more than they are now.

There may be lots of things that become obsolete or socially unacceptable, but there may also be a whole host of other problems that we have no idea about.

I agree with this. Anyone who thinks the world is going to become some sort of paradise is going to be very disappointed.

@lemons44 - thanks for the Black Mirror recommendation, I've never watched it.

I hope
Caging animals for their entire lives
Eating meat & factory farming
Drinking milk - horrific to cows - male calves slaughtered at birth - females taken from mothers to keep them producing milk
Alcohol
Marriage
GP’s

I also think fireworks, at least those that make a sound, and releasing balloons and lanterns into the sky are on their way out.

The poor treatment of others based on skin colour, gender, religion, sexuality

This. Aside from some of the content issues, I suspect that in the next, say, 25 years there will be a lot of robust research that comes into the public consciousness about the effects of things like video games and social media, to the point that your kids using them will be seen as similar to letting them experiment with heroin.

It's funny, some of these things sound very dystopian to me. Alcohol - this is an important agricultural product, it's one of the best ways, when you don't have modern lab processing or freezers, to store some harvests in a long term, space efficient way. If you have an orchard, and you can't eat all the apples, you make juice, and soon enough that juice is alcoholic. Then you feed the pulp to your pigs. Being dependent on factory processing and lab grown foods does not seem like an improvement to me.

And then euthanasia - if people want that they should come here to Canada - they figure it is going to save the health care system a bundle of money so that will be great, especially when they begin allowing it for depression some time next year. A similar trajectory to what has happened in other places such laws have been constructed.

Caffeine addictions - so many people are in the throes of one!

M=F 9-5 working. I think we will move to fewer hours or a 4 day week.

Schools will also become part time due to lack of teachers and more online or blended learning.

Anti vaxers - I think we will see the return of polio and an increase in measles and people will 'rediscover' vaccination.

I don't think the royal family will survive without a lot of changes.

Expensive showy weddings
Expensive, showy school proms
Showy baby showers and gender reveal parties
Influencers

Eating animals.

Eating animals

Have you bothered to read the thread? This must be the twentieth comment, at least, saying the same thing. What on earth makes you think that something mankind has been doing for longer than we can imagine is going to be frowned upon in only 30-40 years time?

We will come full circle and realise that children are not meant to be in nursery provision and away from their primary carer for most of their waking hours. We will have a main carer at home with their child until the child is school age with a couple of mornings a week at a playgroup type place. Benefits will reflect this and society will no longer frown on parents who are at home with their children

Yes.

• if society becomes totalitarian.

I can't think of anything 30-40 years ago that was absolutely fine then but entirely unacceptable now.

OP's video is ~55 years ago, not 30-40 years ago.
Passive smoking is very frowned on now.

55 years from now I hope mass child malnutrition would be unaccepted: it won't, though. It will still be common. :(

I have a suspicion that certain sports could be on way out: rugby, American football. Heading the ball in soccer. They are already tainted. Also extreme high risk sports like bungee jumping, BMX racing, skateboarding in the Olympics, ski-jumping.

*We will come full circle and realise that children are not meant to be in nursery provision and away from their primary carer for most of their waking hours.

I've no idea why you'd think this, if people don't want to put their children in nursery they can ... not put their children in nursery.

society will no longer frown on parents who are at home with their children

Ah, I get it. Quite a lot of projection here.

Balloon releases hopefully. And fireworks.

Ah, I get it. Quite a lot of projection here.
Not at all. I actually worked while mine were little. It was a mistake, I missed so much childhood but felt the pressure to have it all and stay at home parents ( in my area anyway) are very much frowned on.
Children need a main caregiver at home during their formative years, not a nursery or childminder. That's my opinion and is something I believe we will get back to in the future

I can’t believe no one has mentioned Star Trek here.

Replicators will be the new 3D printers and kitchens will have them that serve food. There won’t be meat as most people will be eating replicated meat that tastes the same.

Synthahol instead of alcohol so no toxins and look at the trends of no alcohol drinks.

Prostitution as not only would most people would find it distasteful, they would be able to have virtual reality holodeck experiences.

I also think there will be much tougher laws on pollution and looking back we will cringe at current standards.

I also think homes and buildings not having solar panels will be seen as odd

Once gas powered cars are phased out due to necessity rather than a clean choice, a lot of neurological conditions will start to disappear and people will be shocked that we happily lived amidst the toxic fumes gor so long.

Really, within 30 years, Britain is going to reform its shitty benefits system and economy – so, wages, cost of living, house prices – to the extent we can both fund a non-working parent to stay at home and fund morning playgroup places and put swathes of full-time nursery workers out of work?

I dunno, half of this thread is really interesting views on what will be the next smoking/drink driving/“I can’t believe this was once legal”, and half is just pure value judgement and wish fulfilment. I want more of the former!

I do think environmentally damaging choices will be frowned upon and looked back in anger and amazement: that we ever used so much plastic, especially microplastics, short-haul cheap flights, so many cars. But, despite how much I think second homes should be shunned and banned, they’re never going to be as long as people keep voting Tory.

I worked when mine were little too, it was fantastic for us, fantastic child care, great experience in independence and other kids for them, I forged my career giving us a much better standard of living and provided a good role model in that regard.

fortunately society as moved on from the 50s and I doubt it will go back there.